Example Configurations

We present here some example network configurations. The numbers will
only make sense for very specific locations and you will need to
obtain your specific addresses from your System Administrator. We
illustrate these through the contents of
/etc/network/interfaces but it is advisable to use
Applications-->System
Tools-->Networking as discussed above to change the contents of
this configuration file.

The simplest configuration uses DHCP to automatically obtain network
information from a server that allocates addresses:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Velox (42.41) was initially set up to allow DHCP allocation of the IP
address. The DHCP server delivered the appropriate information as
demonstrated in /var/log/installer.log:

A computer with a SMC91C92 Ethernet network card. I had to configure
the appropriate kernel module to have this card recognised. I used
the modconf command to do this, select the Net
modules and select the smc9194 module. Configuring this
succeeded, returning the following message: